Grisly slasher murder still baffling a century later (2 of 2)
AS PORTLAND DISTRICT Attorney Walter Evans and his team ramped up their case against Louise Agee, the tone of the newspaper coverage got dar...
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State tried to pin Grisly slasher murder on victim's 'grim widow' (1 of 2)
IT WAS A little after 10 p.m. on a Friday evening in the summer of 1921. In their little house on Druid Street in the St. Johns neighborhood...
Astronaut left a piece of Oregon lava on the moon
When astronaut Jim Irwin came to Bend for lunar landing training in the lava rock of Oregon's 'moon country,' he made friends with a local r...
Beavercreek Bomber: Pay $1 million or out go the lights
Calling himself “J. Hawker,” David Heesh dynamited several high-voltage powerline towers, then threatened to keep it up unless ransom was de...
Pilot boat’s entire crew mysteriously disappeared
Pilot boat sailed back and forth on the Columbia River Bar all day and all night before finally crashing onto the beach; when onlookers ran...
Oregon’s tiger pimp went on the lam, became big problem for Idaho (2 of 2)
“The ‘zoo,’ it turned out, was little more than a maze of chicken wire, random sheets of metal, and haphazard boards nailed together in ways...
Oregon had its own 'Tiger King,' only ours was worse (Part 1 of 2)
By 1984, Robert Fieber had more than 75 animals, including several dozen lions, tigers, jaguars, and wolves. He also had changed the name of...
Iconic movies filmed in Oregon, Part 3: 1975-1989
As a filming location, Oregon really started to come into its own in the 1980s, and many locals can point to key cultural touchstones that p...
Iconic movies filmed in Oregon, Part 2: 1965-1975
By the early 1960s, word started getting out in Hollywood about Oregon's virtues as a place to shoot on location. Productions made here duri...
Iconic movies shot in Oregon, part 1: 1908-1952
As a place to go shoot pictures on location, Oregon has become pretty popular in the last few dozen years. But the Beaver State's contributi...
Scenic highway was pitched as a 'park to park' experience (Part 2 of 2)
IF MULTNOMAH FALLS has any competition for the title of “crown jewel of the highway,” it would have to be Crown Point Vista House, which you...
Columbia Gorge Scenic Highway set the tone for Oregon roadbuilding for decades (Part 1 of 2)
Engineers make stuff that gets a job done. Paying extra money to make it prettier usually just doesn’t make sense. But every now and then yo...
Getting trapped in ship’s wreckage saved mariner
George May was in an impossible situation, trapped in the upside-down hull of his ship, waiting for death. But then the ship washed ashore,...
For ex-spy Claire Phillips, fame was fleeting but her PTSD was not (Part 2 of 2)
AFTER THE WAR, Claire Phillips was hailed as a hero. Even before she was back in North America, her hometown newspaper was singing her prais...
Portland woman ran U.S. spy ring in World War II (Part 1 of 2)
'High Pockets' was the nom de guerre of Claire Phillips, a gorgeous brunette Vaudeville girl from the faraway American town of Portland, Ore...
Bloody 1925 prison break ended badly for everyone involved (2 of 2)
THE 1925 PRISON break had a big effect on the state prison. Warden Dalrymple, as mentioned before, had been given the job for political reas...
Rampant Klan cronyism led to bloody 1925 prison break (1 of 2)
IT WAS A TYPICAL balmy August evening at the Oregon State Penitentiary. The bell had rung for supper, so inmates were streaming out of their...
Brutal ‘Oregon Boot’ made our state prison infamous
Named after the warden who invented it, the “Gardner Shackle” eventually caused serious musculoskeletal damage; many former inmates limped f...
Meteorites that have fallen on the Beaver State (2 of 2)
The Willamette Meteorite is the most famous heavenly body to end up in Oregon, but it’s far from the only one. Here are some of the others.....
Man found meteorite on his neighbor's land ... so he stole it. (1 of 2)
IT WAS GETTING toward the end of the summer of 1902, and West Linn resident Ellis Hughes was getting worried. His neighbor, William Dale, ha...